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Hi Gwen!

Spiritual Journey to Unconditional Love

On November 7, 2017 it will be exactly 11 months since my dark journey began.  At that time my soul was broken, incredible sadness and loss at the destruction of my marriage.  What began with blame and finger pointing, turned to shame and guilt, then deep sadness at the things I could not change about myself.  Transmuted to attempts to tear down walls I had built for protection.  All of this in an effort to understand the greatest gift of all, unconditional love.  Every step of this process involved the discovery of a new talent to be exercised for my betterment.  I feel the need to share my journey with others, so that when YOU meet loss, you too will have a place to start.  In laymen’s terms – what does it look like to remove your ego, how do you recognize the mirror, what really is that still small voice you hear, and how do you listen to it. 

 

Keep forever in your mind, that I know absolutely nothing, other than what I have gone through.  I am not an expert, I fall down, fail in my attempts, am inconsistent, and make mistakes like the rest of us.  I hope that this can be a place for others to come and share their thoughts on their healing journey.  I am open to discussion on other options and ways to heal (I love learning).  I will not tolerate bashing, I will not be vilified for my thoughts and beliefs, nor do I allow others to experience the same within this framework.  Nor will I hold your hands, your journey is after all your journey in life.  What I have to offer may not be for you, however you will have to do the work required to heal yourself if you wish to heal. 

 

Your SMALL Voice

  • Writer: Wendy S. Hockenberry
    Wendy S. Hockenberry
  • Nov 10, 2017
  • 2 min read

My mom used to say, ‘listen to your little voice.’ I always thought Jimminy Cricket should be around, somewhere right? Because I don’t hear a little voice. I never knew that I didn’t want to listen to it, and when I did – I didn’t recognize it as a small voice. I just thought I was doing the right thing. The SMALL Voice is simply either a gut check, or a tiny thing that “Makes you go hmmmmm.” I’ll be the first to point out, during the small foray of dating that voice saved my bacon a few times (and let me tell you I kept getting the oddest situations to be in).


Your SMALL Voice is an indicator, like a Geiger counter shooting upwards then back down to normal. Mine typically indicates “WARNING, Danger zone ahead,” however it can also be very tiny and indicate an oddity you must pay attention too, like red flags that are triggers for you. So how can you tell you heard the voice?


Ask this:

  • During an interaction did you happen to think suddenly “that was odd”?

  • What was it that you heard that triggered the thought that something was off?

  • During an interaction did you suddenly have a tight feeling in your gut, feel panic, or fear?

  • Why did you feel those feelings?

  • During the interaction did you suddenly get angry, upset, irritated (these are not Ego state reflections rather just a sudden feeling)?

  • What was said that put you in that state?

  • After an interaction, or during meditation did something suddenly come to you that you hadn’t noticed during the interaction?

That is The SMALL Voice talking to you, and you had better listen to it. Deciding what to do based off the feelings isn’t always the correct way to handle the situation, but it does highlight what your inner self is telling you.


Last Updated June 11, 2018

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